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New Testing Pathways for Students Required to Take the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT)

House Bill 64 and the Ohio Revised Code require the State Board of Education to adopt new rules permitting a student who began ninth grade before July 1, 2014, choices for graduation that incorporate new graduation pathways. The State Board voted to adopt the new rules at its December 2015 board meeting. The new rules became effective on Jan. 1, 2016.

New Testing Pathways for Students Required to Take the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT)

New graduation requirements: Students who began ninth grade on or after July 1, 2014, must meet their course requirements and one of the following pathways for the testing requirement:

Students who began ninth grade before July 1, 2014, must meet their course requirements and their current testing requirements, the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT), to graduate. However, new pathways will allow students additional ways to meet graduation requirements. This means that students who must pass the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) may:

Current: Use old graduation requirements (OGT);

New: Use new graduation requirements (see the three pathways above); or

New: Use new testing options to fulfill old graduation requirements (see table below for the new pathways for these students).